2015 Released Items: Grade 4 Performance-Based Assessment Narrative Writing Task
The Narrative Writing Task focuses on one literary text. Students read the text, answer questions, and write a narrative
response that is tied to and draws on the text.
The 2015 blueprint for PARCC’s grade 4 Narrative Writing Task includes five Evidence-Based Selected
Response/Technology-Enhanced Constructed Response items as well as one Prose Constructed Response prompt. This
document includes a complete Narrative Writing Task from an online summative assessment form.
Included in this document:
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Answer key and standards alignment
PDFs of each item with the associated text
Additional related materials not included in this document:
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Sample scored student responses with practice papers
PARCC Scoring Rubric for Prose Constructed Response Items
Guide to English Language Arts/Literacy Released Items: Understanding Scoring
PARCC English Language Arts/Literacy Assessment: General Scoring Rules for the 2015 Summative Assessment
PARCC PBA Release Items Answer and Alignment Document
ELA/Literacy: Grade 4
Task: Narrative Writing Task (NWT)
Passage(s): Sally's Rescue
Item Code Answer(s)
Standards/Evidence
Statement Alignment
VH002250 Item Type: EBSR
Part A: A
Part B: A
RL 4.1.1
RL 4.3.2
VF647805 Item Type: EBSR
Part A: A
Part B: B
RL 4.1.2
RL 4.3.1
VH035976 Item Type: EBSR
Part A: B
Part B: D
RL 4.1.2
RL 4.3.3
VF647794 Item Type: EBSR
Part A: D
Part B: A
RL 4.1.2
RL 4.2.1
VH002243 Item Type: EBSR
Part A: C
Part B: D
RL 4.1.1
RL 4.3.1
VF647817 Item Type: PCR
Refer to Grade 4-5 Scoring Rubric
W 4.3
W 4.4-4.10
Item: VH002250
Associated Text: “Sally’s Rescue”
Item: VF647805
Associated Text: “Sally’s Rescue”
Item: VH035976
Associated Text: “Sally’s Rescue”
Item: VF647794
Associated Text: “Sally’s Rescue”
Item: VH002243
Associated Text: “Sally’s Rescue”
Item: VF647817
Associated Text: “Sally’s Rescue”